★★★☆☆ Ben Brown’s play imagines the conversation that could have taken place at Kim Philby’s Moscow flat that cold and snowy evening, one in which Graham Greene seems determined to understand Philby’s motivation.
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★★★★☆ This is the latest production by three-piece ‘The Devil’s Violin’. This story-telling musical trio are led by narrator Daniel Morden in a series of atmospheric, sometimes chilling but for the most part redemptive, magical stories.
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★★★★★ What was not to like? Bright and beautifully delivered performances from the entire company were given a fulcrum by the scintillating Soraya Mafi as the cheeky, irrepressible Countess’s maid, Susanna alongside the deliciously warm bass tones of David Ireland as Figaro.
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★★★★☆ Bidding farewell to youth, becoming the next older generation, being solely responsible for one’s life, can all be fearful freefall-type moments. Diverse City pull no punches here, but in this brutally honest exposé of mid-life menopausal crisis, there is something endearingly human about Claire, Jacqui and Karen’s stories. And by the end we are literally dancing with them to the tune of I Am What I Am by Gloria Gaynor.
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★★★☆☆ The Theatre Royal seems a very suitable venue for Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s Ghost Stories. Home to several ghosts of its own, including the famous ‘Grey Lady’, a phantom doorman and a ‘Thing’ composed of several screaming faces accompanied by cold chills and whispering voices, a gentler apparition here is said to take the form of a butterfly.
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